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NJ Transit 4116
Title:  NJ Transit 4116
Description:  NJ Transit F40 4116, one of its early F 40s, rips through the Rahway station en route to the Jersey Shore
Photo Date:  4/6/1981  Upload Date: 10/22/2011 2:51:36 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4116(F40PH-2)
Views:  643   Comments: 1
Coming in for a change
Title:  Coming in for a change
Description:  One of the New York bound trains comes in to South Amboy, where it will cut off and get an E60 for the rest of the trip to Penn Station.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 1:55:30 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4116(F40PH-2)
Views:  351   Comments: 0
Speed Graphic
Title:  Speed Graphic
Description:  Dad had a lot of different cameras, as he was something of a collector. We went on this West Shore trip in 1983, and dad took along his 4x5. We stopped for a runby at Iona Island on the way back, and dad made this photo with it.
Photo Date:  5/29/1983  Upload Date: 12/4/2014 3:21:05 PM
Location:  Iona Island, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4117(F40PH-2) NJT 4119(F40PH-2)
Views:  774   Comments: 0
NJT on the West Shore
Title:  NJT on the West Shore
Description:  On Memorial Day weekend 1983, Tri State NRHS ran two trips to Selkirk from Hoboken. This is Mondays train, seen at Iona Island on the West Shore in the shadow of the Bear Mountain Bridge.
Photo Date:  5/30/1983  Upload Date: 11/12/2013 1:20:20 AM
Location:  Iona Island, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4117(F40PH-2) NJT 4119(F40PH-2)
Views:  1172   Comments: 0
Double headed
Title:  Double headed
Description:  A pair of NJ Transit units have this Hampton train in tow, led by a unit that should be familiar with the route, an original CNJ GP40P.
Photo Date:  3/4/1987  Upload Date: 4/19/2015 4:01:27 AM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4111(GP40P) NJT 4119(F40PH-2)
Views:  682   Comments: 0
Newark train
Title:  Newark train
Description:  An ex CNJ train makes its stop en route to Newark and a New York connection. This would become the standard train set when all the steam heat equipment was retired.
Photo Date:  7/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/19/2013 2:03:29 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4120(F40PH-2)
Views:  575   Comments: 2
Pushing to Newark
Title:  Pushing to Newark
Description:  An eastbound Raritan train gets a push from the now standard F 40 as it heads toward Newark Penn Station and a New York connection.
Photo Date:  3/4/1987  Upload Date: 4/19/2015 4:10:33 AM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4121(F40PH-2)
Views:  370   Comments: 0
EL cab car
Title:  EL cab car
Description:  The EL Comet cars would become the standard for NJ Transit. As newer orders came on line, the cars began to roam systemwide, so it was not a total surprise to find one of the cab cars leading on the ex CNJ. They were a vast improvement over the 1920s era cars and long distance hand me downs that dominated the line in the 70s and early 80s.
Photo Date:  3/4/1987  Upload Date: 4/19/2015 4:16:15 AM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4121(F40PH-2) NJT 4121(F40PH-2)
Views:  808   Comments: 0
CNJ station
Title:  CNJ station
Description:  The Jersey Central had some beautiful Victorian stations, such as this one at Fanwood. Its nicely kept and still serving commuters in this August 1991 scene with a Raritan train making it stop. Note the red CNJ station sign, a nice touch 15 years after the CNJ vanished. Gone from the scene are the outer two tracks of this one time four track, high density railroad.
Photo Date:  8/18/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 3:01:35 PM
Location:  Fanwood, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4121(F40PH-2)
Views:  751   Comments: 1
Grand Canyon F 40
Title:  Grand Canyon F 40
Description:  We stopped in Williams for dinner. I was able to get a shot of this Grand Canyon F 40 as we rolled through town.
Photo Date:  3/9/2019  Upload Date: 4/19/2019 3:25:42 AM
Location:  Williams, AZ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  GCRY 4124(F40PH-2)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
NJT 4125
Title:  NJT 4125
Description:  NJT 4125 leads a train from the Meadows yard toward Newark to take on passengers for Bay Head. The Hartz Mountain sigh, a Harrison landmark for many years, is behind the train
Photo Date:  4/25/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 1:22:15 AM
Location:  Harrison, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4125(F40PH-2)
Views:  462   Comments: 1
F40 west
Title:  F40 west
Description:  An almost new F40 leads a Raritan train west
Photo Date:  7/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/23/2013 1:24:41 AM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4125(F40PH-2)
Views:  355   Comments: 1
This was once Es
Title:  This was once Es
Description:  A train from New York passes an F40 on the ready track at South Amboy. Two years prior, this would have been E 8s
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 1:57:18 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4127(F40PH-2) NJT 4128(F40PH-2)
Views:  569   Comments: 0
Waiting
Title:  Waiting
Description:  Where E units(and K 4s) once killed time waiting for GG 1 hauled trains from New York, F40s now rest.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 2:04:25 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4128(F40PH-2) NJT 4127(F40PH-2)
Views:  464   Comments: 0
CNJ side
Title:  CNJ side
Description:  A train that originated from Newark, that would have run out of Jersey City on the CNJ prior to 1967 pauses at South Amboy.
Photo Date:  7/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/20/2013 12:13:06 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4128(F40PH-2)
Views:  373   Comments: 1
Old and new
Title:  Old and new
Description:  A pair of ex CNJ GP40Ps passes a then new F40 waiting for a train from New York as it makes its way to Bay Head.
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 1:52:51 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4105(GP40P) NJT 4109(GP40P) NJT 4128(F40PH-2)
Views:  827   Comments: 0
Side by side
Title:  Side by side
Description:  The new order-an F40 passes and ex Amtrak E60 west of the South Amboy station
Photo Date:  11/6/1984  Upload Date: 8/2/2014 2:02:12 AM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 4128(F40PH-2) NJT 960(E60)
Views:  829   Comments: 1
F 40 east
Title:  F 40 east
Description:  An F 40 leads this short eastbound from Ottawa just east of the Dorval station
Photo Date:  9/6/1987  Upload Date: 5/26/2015 12:03:29 PM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6401(F40PH-2)
Views:  545   Comments: 0
Headed back to Ottawa
Title:  Headed back to Ottawa
Description:  The 6401 we saw earlier is now going back west to Ottawa leading train 35 approaching Dorval station
Photo Date:  9/6/1987  Upload Date: 5/26/2015 12:11:49 PM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6401(F40PH-2)
Views:  464   Comments: 0
Late afternoon to Windsor
Title:  Late afternoon to Windsor
Description:  A late day train 69 gets underway from Dorval.
Photo Date:  8/31/1996  Upload Date: 5/5/2014 3:36:43 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6406(F40PH-2)
Views:  375   Comments: 0
In from Ottawa
Title:  In from Ottawa
Description:  Train 36 rolls into Dorval, making its last stop before the end of the run at Montreal.
Photo Date:  6/14/1989  Upload Date: 10/20/2015 5:01:00 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6407(F40PH-2)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
Connection
Title:  Connection
Description:  Two friends and I went to Montreal to ride the Atlantic on the CP across Maine, which at the time was in jeopardy of discontinuance. We parked out at Dorval, since the parking there was better than downtown, and took this VIA train to connect.
Photo Date:  9/30/1989  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 4:18:46 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6408(F40PH-2)
Views:  427   Comments: 1
F 40 for Toronto
Title:  F 40 for Toronto
Description:  Train 65 makes its stop at Dorval, picking up a crowd for destinations down Lake Ontario. F 40's on LRC consists were becoming common by this time.
Photo Date:  6/15/1989  Upload Date: 10/28/2015 3:20:07 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6417(F40PH-2)
Views:  328   Comments: 0
Train 65
Title:  Train 65
Description:  Train 65 arrives at Dorval en route to Toronto, finding a large crowd going for the ride.
Photo Date:  6/15/1989  Upload Date: 1/16/2012 12:24:37 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6417(F40PH-2)
Views:  436   Comments: 0
Taking on passengers
Title:  Taking on passengers
Description:  Train 65 loads at Dorval. It will soon rolling hard for Windsor with a set of LRC cars
Photo Date:  8/31/1996  Upload Date: 5/5/2014 3:40:11 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6418(F40PH-2)
Views:  402   Comments: 0
In from Ottawa
Title:  In from Ottawa
Description:  Train 30 from the nations capital is running flat out as it approaches its next stop at Dorval.
Photo Date:  9/30/1989  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 3:20:42 AM
Location:  Dorion, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6420(F40PH-2)
Views:  278   Comments: 0
Through the signals to Ottawa
Title:  Through the signals to Ottawa
Description:  Train 33 rolls west through the signals at Dorion with its three cars to Ottawa.
Photo Date:  9/30/1989  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 4:20:45 AM
Location:  Dorion, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6420(F40PH-2)
Views:  320   Comments: 0
Set out
Title:  Set out
Description:  The Ocean set off cars at Moncton to be picked up en route from Halifax, along with power. Here is such a set out at the station.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:46:48 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6421(F40PH-2) VIA 6620(F9B)
Views:  440   Comments: 0
LRC
Title:  LRC
Description:  The original LRC units turned out to be not so reliable, so VIA displaced them in favor of F40s. Heres one headed for Montreal at Dorval
Photo Date:  8/31/1996  Upload Date: 5/5/2014 3:47:01 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6424(F40PH-2)
Views:  406   Comments: 0
Trailing to Toronto
Title:  Trailing to Toronto
Description:  A VIA train from Windsor rolls toward Toronto, its second unit on the rear of the train.
Photo Date:  8/15/1991  Upload Date: 2/28/2015 4:34:42 AM
Location:  Bayview, ON
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6426(F40PH-2)
Views:  411   Comments: 0
Westbound with MLWs
Title:  Westbound with MLWs
Description:  A westbound freight passes the station. We saw a lot of MLWs that day, and the parade continues.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 4:58:43 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2012(C40-8) CN 2027(C40-8) CN 9560(GP40-2LW) VIA 6431(F40PH-2)
Views:  974   Comments: 0
Small Ms
Title:  Small Ms
Description:  A pair of four axle MLWs roll a westbound past the station.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 4:59:23 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  CN 3546(M420W) VIA 6431(F40PH-2) CN 3645(RS18)
Views:  687   Comments: 1
RDCs and an F 40
Title:  RDCs and an F 40
Description:  The RDCs that will head out to connecting towns sit alongside the set out cars and power for the Ocean.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:41:14 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6431(F40PH-2) VIA 6138(RDC1) VIA 6223(RDC2) VIA 6143(RDC1) VIA 6136(RDC1)
Views:  821   Comments: 1
F 40s
Title:  F 40s
Description:  The Atlantic is at right, weve just gotten off and went to grab a shot while it was doing station work. The set off cars for the Ocean are at left. F40s were the big new power for VIA at the time.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:48:47 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6431(F40PH-2) VIA 6440(F40PH-2)
Views:  449   Comments: 0
Nose on
Title:  Nose on
Description:  Close up of the nose of F40 6431.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:51:23 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  VIA 6431(F40PH-2)
Views:  304   Comments: 0
Ocean
Title:  Ocean
Description:  The Ocean set out cars sit in the sun at Moncton
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 2:03:32 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  VIA 6431(F40PH-2) VIA 6618(F9B)
Views:  598   Comments: 0
Station side
Title:  Station side
Description:  The station side of the Ocean train set, now in nice light.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 4:34:55 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  VIA 6431(F40PH-2) VIA 6618(F9B)
Views:  515   Comments: 1
Early train from Ottawa
Title:  Early train from Ottawa
Description:  Train 30 rolls across the Ottawa River as it rushes toward Montreal.
Photo Date:  9/30/1989  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 4:22:15 AM
Location:  Dorion, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6435(F40PH-2)
Views:  373   Comments: 1
West to the capital
Title:  West to the capital
Description:  Train 33 rolls west to Ottawa early in the morning. The train set had just come in a little earlier as train 32. It's already turned and headed back.
Photo Date:  9/30/1989  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 4:25:11 AM
Location:  Dorion, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6435(F40PH-2)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
More Ottawa
Title:  More Ottawa
Description:  Canadas capital was well served on Saturday. Heres train 32 rushing headlong for Montreal.
Photo Date:  9/30/1989  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 4:27:07 AM
Location:  Dorion, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6436(F40PH-2)
Views:  316   Comments: 1
Corridor train
Title:  Corridor train
Description:  After a series of trains to and from Ottawa, finally a corridor train to Toronto, behind an F40 with conventional equipment.
Photo Date:  9/30/1989  Upload Date: 11/30/2015 4:31:29 AM
Location:  Dorion, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6437(F40PH-2)
Views:  320   Comments: 0
F40 to Ottawa
Title:  F40 to Ottawa
Description:  Train 33 picks up for the trip to the capital.
Photo Date:  6/15/1989  Upload Date: 10/28/2015 3:22:56 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6439(F40PH-2)
Views:  289   Comments: 0
The Canadian
Title:  The Canadian
Description:  The Canadian stops at Dorval to pick up its passengers for a transcontinental trip. In a touch of class, theres an F leading.
Photo Date:  6/14/1989  Upload Date: 10/20/2015 5:02:55 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6511(FP9A) VIA 6441(F40PH-2)
Views:  763   Comments: 0
Overpowered
Title:  Overpowered
Description:  An FP 9 and F 40 lead the three LRC coaches of train 30 in from Ottawa. They should have enough horsepower to make it to the end of the trip.
Photo Date:  6/14/1989  Upload Date: 10/20/2015 5:05:29 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6530(FP9A) VIA 6442(F40PH-2)
Views:  447   Comments: 0
Train 30
Title:  Train 30
Description:  VIA 6511 leads train 30 toward Montreal. Looks a little over powered for the three LRC coaches in tow.
Photo Date:  6/15/1989  Upload Date: 1/16/2012 12:13:20 AM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6530(FP9A) VIA 6442(F40PH-2)
Views:  593   Comments: 1
Scenic ride
Title:  Scenic ride
Description:  A Toronto bound VIA train rolls through Bayview Jct and onto the Oakville Sub.
Photo Date:  8/15/1991  Upload Date: 2/28/2015 4:36:36 AM
Location:  Bayview, ON
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6442(F40PH-2)
Views:  346   Comments: 1
Intermodal
Title:  Intermodal
Description:  Train 64 arrives at Dorval, as the other method of transport in town also arrives.
Photo Date:  6/15/1989  Upload Date: 10/21/2015 12:15:42 PM
Location:  Dorval, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6448(F40PH-2)
Views:  377   Comments: 0


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